| Adobe® Lightroom® 3
Simplify photography from shoot to finish
Adobe® Photoshop® Lightroom® 3 software helps you bring out the best
in your photographs, whether you're perfecting one image, searching for
ten, processing hundreds, or organizing thousands.
Create incredible images that move your audience. Experiment
fearlessly with state-of-the-art nondestructive editing tools. Easily
manage all your images. And showcase your work in elegant print layouts,
slide shows, and web galleries, as well as on popular photo-sharing
sites. All from within one fast, intuitive application.
What's New
Superior noise reduction NEW
Achieve amazing, natural-looking results from your high ISO
images with all-new state-of-the-art noise reduction technology. You
won't need more than what's built into Adobe® Photoshop® Lightroom® 3 to
get the cleanest images at any ISO.
Accelerated performance NEW
Get your digital photography tasks done fast and have more time
to shoot and promote your work. Already quick performance has been
dramatically accelerated in Lightroom 3, saving you time from first look
to final image.
Support for DSLR video files NEW
Take advantage of new support for video files from most digital
SLR cameras, which allows you to easily manage and organize both still
photographs and video files side by side.
Image watermarking NEW
Easily embed your identity or your brand and logo in your
images with more options for customizing their look. The new
watermarking tool lets you apply text or graphic watermarks to a photo
with adjustable size, position, and opacity.
Easy image importing NEW
Save time with fast image importing. The newly designed import
interface is easy to set up and navigate, with clear visual indications
of where your photos will be located and how they'll be organized after
you've imported them.
Perspective correction NEW
Get more natural-looking results by applying powerful,
nondestructive perspective correction to your images. Reduce or
eliminate the distortion that can occur, for example, when you take a
photograph with the camera pointed upward, causing buildings to appear
to be leaning backward in your image.
More flexible print packages NEW
Showcase your work in more creative formats using highly
customizable print layouts, which you can save as reusable templates.
With the new custom print layout creation tool, you just drag one image
or several shots onto a page and resize or reposition them as you like.
Lens correction NEW
Quickly and easily perfect your images by automatically
reducing lens defects like geometric distortion, chromatic aberration,
and vignetting with single-click profiles. Even images from the best
lenses will be improved.
Flickr integration NEW
Use Lightroom almost seamlessly with Flickr, a Yahoo! service.
Upload your images directly to Flickr from within the Lightroom 3
Library. When friends or clients post comments and ratings on your
Flickr galleries, you can immediately see their feedback in the
Lightroom 3 Library alongside your images.
Easy-to-share slide show videos with music NEW
Show your images to clients, friends, or family with more style
and flair using elegant slide shows with music. Slide shows are a
breeze to create, and you can share them easily by exporting them as
videos, even in high definition.
Tethered shooting NEW
Instantly import and view images as you shoot them with
tethered capture, available for select cameras. Use it to make an
immediate, highly detailed check of your shot, the lighting, or the
shooting setup. Or get instant feedback from clients or subjects.
Film grain simulation NEW
Use new sliders to easily control the amount, size, and
roughness of grain that you can add to your images to simulate the look
of film.
Features
Adobe® Photoshop® Lightroom® 3 software unites your digital
photography essentials in one fast and intuitive package. Create
something beautiful. Express your vision. Move your audience.
Lightroom gets you there with the tools you need to create great
images, manage all your photographs, and showcase them with style and
impact.
CREATE BRILLIANT IMAGES
Above all, it's your images that matter. Make them as great as you
imagined they could be using the leading-edge image processing tools in
Lightroom. From sophisticated exposure and color controls to superior
noise reduction and sharpening, Lightroom provides what you need to
create stunning photographs.
State-of-the-art editing tools
Create the perfect look for every image, whether you shoot raw
or JPEG. Designed by the makers of Adobe Photoshop software in
partnership with top photographers around the world, Lightroom includes a
comprehensive range of leading-edge image processing tools. Make
precise overall adjustments to color and contrast or use a flexible
brush that lets you edit in targeted areas of your photo for just the
look you want. Dodge and burn, convert to black-and-white, add grain,
reduce noise, adjust sharpness, and much more.
Develop presets
Save your favorite looks and apply them instantly. Handy
presets — many are included, or you can create and save your own —
enable you to apply a series of favorite adjustments in a single click.
Nondestructive editing
Experiment fearlessly with as many image-editing controls,
enhancements, and looks as you like. Lightroom is a nondestructive
environment that encourages your creative exploration. Your original
images are safely unaltered, and it's easy to reverse your steps or save
multiple versions of any photograph.
Adobe Photoshop CS5 integration
Select multiple photos in Lightroom and automatically open them
in Photoshop CS5 to merge them into a panorama, a high dynamic range
(HDR) photo, or a creative composite. See your edits immediately back in
Lightroom.
STREAMLINE YOUR DIGITAL PHOTOGRAPHY
In every way, Lightroom boosts your creativity and saves you time and
effort. Built to be fast, intuitive, and a pleasure to use, it's the
efficient assistant you need — one set of powerful tools for your
digital photography tasks, whether you're adjusting one image, searching
for ten, processing hundreds, or organizing thousands.
Your photography essentials in one package
Quickly achieve the best from your photography with proven,
refined software that provides efficient tools for your entire
photography workflow. You can edit, manage, and showcase all your images
with one integrated solution.
Intuitive environment
Be productive and efficient, and enjoy the freedom and
creativity that comes from working within an intuitive environment
perfectly designed for the job. The controls of Lightroom are easy to
master and let you breeze through your photography tasks quickly and
smoothly.
Highly tuned performance and design
Quickly edit one photograph or work efficiently with libraries
of up to hundreds of thousands of images. The already fast performance
of Lightroom has been accelerated even further in Lightroom 3. The newly
designed import interface is easy to set up and navigate, with clear
visual indications of where your photos will be located and how they'll
be organized. Save time when processing images by applying the same
Develop settings to all photos in a group at once using presets or the
sync feature. For example, correct the exposure from an entire shoot or
convert all of the images to black-and-white.
Efficient image viewing and selecting
See, evaluate, and select your images quickly and clearly with
flexible image viewing features. Instantly magnify one image or compare
several. Even hide the background and application interface so that you
can focus on what matters most — your images.
Image management
Get organized and find images quickly with powerful asset
management features. Easily group photos into collections, quickly
assign searchable ratings and keywords to one image or hundreds, manage
your library across multiple drives, and sort or search for photos using
many different criteria.
The Lightroom community
Trade tips, experience, Develop presets, and more with a
thriving worldwide community of Lightroom users and photographers just
like you in many venues online and offline.
MAKE AN IMPACT
You shot your images because they had meaning, whether to you, your
client, or your subject. Use Lightroom to communicate that meaning with
style and impact. Create customized print packages, dynamic slide show
videos with music, and elegant web galleries. And showcase your images
online using new, streamlined integration with photo-sharing sites (may
require third-party plug-ins).
Customized print layouts
Easily showcase your photos at their best with a top-quality
printing engine and customized print layouts that let you print several
copies of one or multiple images on a single sheet of paper.
Easy-to-share slide show videos with music
Show your images to clients, friends, or family with more style
and flair using elegant slide shows with music. Slide shows are a
breeze to create, and you can share them easily by exporting them as
videos, even in high definition.
Flexible online publishing
Post your images to selected online photo-sharing services
directly from within the Lightroom Library (may require third-party
plug-ins). Showcasing your work and keeping your web images fresh has
never been simpler. Support for Flickr, a Yahoo! service, is already
built in, and when friends or clients post comments on your Flickr
galleries you can immediately see their feedback in the Lightroom 3
Library alongside your images.
PROFESSIONALS: BOOST YOUR BOTTOM LINE
Lightroom is an invaluable assistant for professional photographers.
You're juggling deadlines, processing and delivering proofs, soliciting
client feedback, generating finished images, and marketing yourself and
your work. Use Lightroom to do it all better and faster.
More time for shooting and marketing
Free up time so you can shoot more and expend more effort on
promoting yourself and your photography. Lightroom is a fast, intuitive
toolset that handles your whole post-shoot workflow in one application.
Import, organize, review, and search your images quickly and easily.
Adjust multiple photos from a shoot and generate proofs with efficient,
timesaving batch operations. Distribute and showcase your images quickly
using new flexible print layouts, streamlined integration with online
photo-sharing sites, easy web gallery creation, and more.
Sophisticated output options
Take advantage of new opportunities to effectively market your
work with the comprehensive output options in Lightroom. Create
sophisticated, customized print packages and elegant, easy-to-share
slide show videos with music. Easily maintain a fresh, constantly
updated web portfolio with flexible online publishing features that let
you post images directly to your own web gallery or selected
photo-sharing services from within the Lightroom Library (may require
third-party plug-ins).
Easy access to assets to build your brand
Never lose a potential sale. The superior image management,
keywording, and searching features in Lightroom let you easily find and
reuse any shot in your image library. Easily embed your name, logo, or
other information in your images with the new watermarking function. You
can apply text or graphic watermarks to an image with adjustable size,
position, and opacity, so your brand is reflected in your own style. |
